As well as doubling the amount of available cut or boost, Focus mode narrows the filter's Q, allowing for either precise remedial EQ cuts or resonant peaking boosts.Īt the bottom of the faceplate are dials for output trim (☑2dB range) and a high-pass filter.
Like the shelving bands, these provide up to ☙dB of gain each, but this can be doubled to a radical ☑8dB by pressing either of the mid bands' Focus buttons. The two mid bands are both parametric types with continuously variable centre frequencies (100Hz-1.1kHz for the LMF 600Hz-9kHz for the HMF), and independently adjustable Q. The HF and LF bands are both shelving types, offering ☙dB of gain at 30, 50, 70 or 90 Hz for the lows and 8, 12, 16 or 20 kHz for the highs. But where the Fusion's EQ section was a fairly basic two-band affair, the UV EQ module offers adjustment over four separate frequency bands. The UV EQ has its roots in the much-coveted SSL Fusion, and like that device, it too is a stereo processor. Oxford mixer dons Solid State Logic have just released two new modules for the 500 series: the double-width Ultraviolet EQ, and the single-width SiX Channel input strip.
